Cinema Eye Honors Awards 2026: Complete list of winners and nominees explored 

The Cinema Eye Honors Awards announced their winners for this year’s awards. The winners have been revealed for 19 categories.

The 19th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Awards nominations were dominated by Come See Me In The Good Light with a total of 6 categories. The documentary won an award in the Feature, Original Music Score categories. Other wins at the Cinema Eye Honors Awards were scored by The Perfect Neighbor, Seeds, Deaf President Now!, Social Studies, and more.

The Cinema Eye Honors Awards ceremony took place at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem, New York, on January 8.

List of winners and nominees for Cinema Eye Honors Awards

Here is the full list of 2026 Cinema Eye Honors winners:

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Best Feature

• 2000 Meters to Andriivka - Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath, Alex Babenko, and Sam Slater
• Afternoons of Solitude - Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Luis Ferrón, Pedro Palacios, Artur Tort, Mac Verdaguer and Jordi Ribas
• Come See Me in the Good Light - Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen, Brandon Somerhalder, Berenice Chávez, Blake Neely, Dave Richards, Brent Kiser, Andrea Gibson, and Megan Falley (WINNER)
• Cover-Up - Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Yoni Golijov, Olivia Streisand, Mia Cioffi Henry, Amy Foote, Peter Bowman, Maya Shenfeld, and Seymour Hersh
• The Perfect Neighbor - Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, Sam Bisbee, Viridiana Lieberman, Laura Heinzinger, and Felipe Messeder
• Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk - Sepideh Farsi, Javad Djavahery, Fatma Hassona, Cinna Peyghamy, and Pierre Carrasco
• Seeds - Brittany Shyne, Danielle Varga, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Daniel Timmons, Ben Kruse, and Willie Head Jr.

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Best Direction

• 2000 Meters to Andriivka Mstyslav Chernov Mstyslav Cherno - Mstyslav Chernov
• Afternoons of Solitude - Albert Serra
• Come See Me in the Good Light - Ryan White
• Cover-Up - Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
• The Perfect Neighbor - Geeta Gandbhir (WINNER)
• Predators - David Osit
• Seeds - Brittany Shyne

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Best Editing

• 2000 Meters to Andriivka - Michelle Mizner
• Cover-Up - Amy Foote, Peter Bowman, and Laura Poitras
• I Am Not Everything I Want to Be - Alexander Kashcheev
• My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow - Julia Loktev and Michael Taylor
• Orwell: 2+2=5 - Alexandra Strauss
• The Perfect Neighbor - Viridiana Lieberman (WINNER)
• Riefenstahl - Stephan Krumbiegel, Olaf Voigtländer and Alfredo Castro

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Production

• 2000 Meters to Andriivka - Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, and Raney Aronson-Rath
• The Alabama Solution - Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman (WINNER-TIE)
• Antidote - James Jones and David Moulton
• Apocalypse in the Tropics - Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino (WINNER-TIE)
• Mr. Nobody Against Putin - Helle Faber
• My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow - Julia Loktev

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Best Cinematography

• Afternoons of Solitude - Artur Tort
• Architecton - Ben Bernhard
• Come See Me in the Good Light - Brandon Somerhalder
• Folktales - Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo and Tor Edvin Eliassen
• Seeds - Brittany Shyne (WINNER)
• The Tale of Silyan - Jean Dakar

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Best Original Music Score

• 2000 Meters to Andriivka - Sam Slater
• Come See Me in the Good Light - Blake Neely (WINNER)
• Cover-Up - Maya Shenfeld
• The Eyes of Ghana - Kris Bowers
• Folktales - Todd Griffin
• Orwell: 2+2=5 - Alexeï Aïgui

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Sound Design

• Architecton - Alexander Dudarev
• Deaf President Now! - James LeBrecht, Greg Francis, and Nina Hartstone (WINNER)
• Folktales - Andreas Lindberg Svensson
• Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore - Bonnie Wild
• One to One: John and Yoko - Sean Ono Lennon, Sam Gannon, and Simon Hilton
• Seeds - Daniel Timmons and Ben Kruse

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Visual Design

• Ghost Boy - David Offner, Syd Garon, Rodney Ascher
• In Waves and War - Jon Shenk, Gergely Wootsch, Marcus Armitage
• It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley - Sara Gunnarsdóttir, Josh Shaffner, Kevin Eskew (WINNER)
• The New Yorker at 100 - Norn Jordan
• Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted - Joseph Midthun
• Zodiac Killer Project - Charlie Shackleton and Teddy Blanks

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Audience Choice Prize

• Apocalypse in the Tropics - directed by Petra Costa
• Coexistence, My Ass! - directed by Amber Fares
• Come See Me in the Good Light - directed by Ryan White
• The Eyes of Ghana - directed by Ben Proudfoot
• It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley - directed by Amy Berg
• The Librarians - directed by Kim A. Snyder
• Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore - directed by Shoshannah Stern
• Prime Minister - directed by Michelle Walsh and Lindsay Utz
• The Tale of Silyan - directed by Tamara Kotevska (WINNER)
• Mr. Nobody Against Putin - directed by David Borenstein

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Debut

• Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore - directed by Shoshannah Stern
• Monk in Pieces - directed by Billy Shebar and David C. Roberts
• Remaining Native - directed by Paige Bethmann
• Seeds - directed by Brittany Shyne (WINNER)
• The Shepherd and the Bear - directed by Max Keegan
• Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted - directed by Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson

Spotlight Award

• Always - directed by Deming Chen
• The Encampments - directed by Michael T. Workman and Kei Pritsker
• Sanatorium - directed by Gar O’Rourke
• To the West, in Zapata - directed by David Bim (WINNER)
• Flophouse America - directed by Monica Strømdahl

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Heterodox Award

• BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions - Kahlil Joseph
• East of Wall - Kate Beecroft
• Peter Hujar's Day - Ira Sachs
• To a Land Unknown - Mahdi Fleifel
• The Voice of Hind Rajab - Kaouther Ben Hania (WINNER)
• The Rehearsal - Nathan Fielder

Nonfiction Short Film

• “Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud” - directed by Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud
• “All the Empty Rooms” - directed by Joshua Seftel (WINNER)
• “The Devil Is Busy” - directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Christalyn Hampton
• “Mama Micra” - directed by Rebecca Blöcher
• “Perfectly a Strangeness” - directed by Alison McAlpine
• “We Were the Scenery” - directed by Christopher Radcliff

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Broadcast Film

• Deaf President Now! - directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
• Democracy Noir - directed by Connie Field
• Enigma - directed by Zackary Drucker
• My Mom Jayne - directed by Mariska Hargitay
• Pee-wee as Himself - directed by Matt Wolf (WINNER)
• Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) - directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson

Nonfiction Series

• Chimp Crazy - directed by Eric Goode
• Couples Therapy - directed by Pax Wassermann and Bennett Elliott
• Dallas, 2019 - directed by Darius Clark Monroe
• The Sing Sing Chronicles - directed by Dawn Porter
• Social Studies - directed by Lauren Greenfield (WINNER)
• The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth - directed by Juliette Eisner

Anthology Series

• Omnivore - René Redzepi, Ben Liebmann, Chris Rice, Matt Goulding, Collin Orcutt, and Mateo Willis
• Conan O’Brien Must Go - Conan O’Brien and Jeff Ross (WINNER)
• Harlem Ice - Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, Robin Roberts, Geeta Gandbhir, Meredith Kaulfers, and Alisa Payne
• Our Oceans - Jonathan Smith and James Honeyborne
• SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night - Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers, and Juaquin Cambron
• Tucci in Italy - Stanley Tucci, Lottie Birmingham, Amanda Lyon, and Simon Raikes

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Broadcast Editing

• Deaf President Now! - edited by Michael Harte
• My Mom Jayne - edited by JD Marlow
• Pee-wee as Himself - edited by Damian Rodriguez
• Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) - edited by Joshua L. Pearson
• Social Studies - edited by Alyse Ardell Spiegel, Helen Kearns, Catherine Bull, and Charles Little II (WINNER)
• Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos - edited by Andy Grieve

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Broadcast Cinematography

• Chef’s Table: Legends - director of photography, Will Basanta
• Dallas, 2019 - director of photography, Christine Ng
• No Taste Like Home With Antoni Porowski - director of photography, Steve Lidgerwood
• Omnivore - directors of photography, Tom Elliott, Sy Turnbull, and Jurgen Lisse (WINNER)
• Our Oceans - directors of photography Roger Munns, Roger Horrocks, Justin Maguire, Ryan Tidman, and Jamie McPherson
• Social Studies - directors of photography Bryan Donnell, Jenna Rosher, and Jerry Risius

Cinema Eye Honors Awards for Unforgettable Honorees

• Noam Shuster-Eliassi - Coexistence, My Ass!
• Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley - Come See Me in the Good Light
• Seymour Hersh - Cover-Up
• Sara Shahverdi - Cutting Through Rocks
• Pavel Talankin - Mr. Nobody Against Putin
• Jacinda Ardern - Prime Minister
• Fatma Hassona - Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

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